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The warranty doesn't matter much because if you need to use it, you'll get a repaird unit that isn't likely to last 1 year based on many people's experience. The lost data is the real issue for most people...

For those who don't know, now days a longer product warranty does not decree a better quality product. Products with longer warranty cost more to pay for the longer warranty.Reply

I don't get your point? The point of a warranty is to guarantee performance up to the stated warranty period. That's never been about quality or not. Whether you get a good unit back from warranty is entirely going to be luck of the draw with any manufacturer.

It's no different in the car industry, Hyundai's 10 year warranty isn't an indicator of quality either.Reply

I googled to find more data on this "XPERT NAND" that is mentioned in this article. It actually doesn't exist, though a PDF explains that XPERT is not NAND, it is actual firmware and algorithms. I can't believe Anand missed the mark so badly.Reply

Well..that states specifically that it uses XPERT technology but not that the NAND is XPERT NAND.For instance, some Marvell SSDs use F.R.A.M.E. technology, but they do not refer to it as F.R.A.M.E. NAND. Reply

Its weird but I noticed when this article posted that there were already 1,394 likes in the icon above. I come back three hours later and there is the exact same number of likes! It really blew my mind that there would be 1,394 likes in the first five minutes of this article being posted, but now i see that the Like button must be broken :) Reply

I'm not sure what causes it, but periodically when an article posts the Like button is broken and basically "maxes out". I don't know where the 1394 number comes from (not FireWire! Hahaha), but I'll pass the info to John, our web guy, to see if he can do something about it. It was supposed to be fixed....Reply

All of the SSD makers have been rushing half-baked products to market for huge profits from gullible consumers duped by the media. With Smasungs SSD and now PC issues, it's pretty safe to conclude that quite a few of the brand name SSD suppliers are cashing in on half-baked crap.Reply

Was he saying that they never have issues with their SSDs? No, that's what the "more" indicates (more stable than competition, not absolutely, 100% stable all the time).And just because there are issues doesn't mean things are half baked, in my opinion. Everything can have issues, even centuries old technology or stuff they through countless man-hours and money at. I personally owned 3 SSDs (Agility, Vertex2, 840 non-Pro), all working fine to this day. I owned a Samsung laptop, smartphone, tablet, all fine. Am I saying that everything with them is fine? No. But there is no point in being a doom-sayer like you at the moment either.Reply

The whole thing looks great (with the exception of Anand making some very major flaws listing the design of the unit) until the very end where he essentially says, "buy intel", even though they have nowhere near the features of the P5400m. I am wondering how he came to that conclusion.Reply

I don't recall him saying that. He mentioned price performance. This performs somewhat worse than the Intel drive, so he said that if it were less expensive, it would be worth looking at, but that if it were more expensive, then the Intel drive would be a better bet. Since micron's pricing is pretty high, as given, though they told him the pricing was wrong, we don't know the pricing.

Is it just me or do the graphs on the second page feature the Samsung 840pro SSD, but the subsequent graphs all have the Samsung SM825. It was my understanding that the 840pro was top 3 on most tests according to another article of yours. Hoping someone can doublecheck this.Reply

Could you elaborate on what benchmark software you use to collect the IOPS data over time? I have been looking for just such a tool even looking into a custom IOmeter that logged when the screen is updated.